Volume 1: Through the Demons Chapter 17: The Puppet Opera
The girl woke up from the coma and found herself in a very elegantly decorated room, but she didn't see the boy who saved her last night, and she couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied in her heart, she felt that since the other party saved herself, she must not just leave her alone, and now she didn't think at all that she hid behind Sherlock last night, otherwise, Sherlock wouldn't want to be nosy and be this good person.
got out of bed and came all the way to the hall, Nona felt a little uncomfortable when she saw her, because the other party always called her back and forth as the head of the house, and made endless trouble all day long, a typical princess disease, it is estimated that she has been spoiled since childhood, but here the Van Dom Highway Mansion, when her Heloise Alex's territory is not here, it is really unpleasant to look at.
Heloise didn't care what Nona thought, she just came all the way to Sherlock's bedroom, and saw Sherlock who was working with his head, in fact, she was very curious, what was he going to do with a cake model on his table, at this time Sherlock cleaned up the things on the table and stood up, turned around and saw that the other party was standing behind her without knowing when a trace of surprise crossed her eyes: "What are you doing here?" β
Heloise looked at him and suddenly asked, "Those five people yesterdayβ"
Sherlock's face suddenly became very cold, which reminded him of what happened to him at the Angled Mansion, because of Lopez's betrayal, he was used as a vent by those five people, as if the scene full of darkness, resentment, and twisted death of a month by his family was re-screened in front of his eyes like a marquee.
After all, his body was filled with the same filth and ugliness as those people, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it, his body was already crazy with hatred.
Heloise didn't think about her question at the moment, like a sharp knife piercing Sherlock's heart until it pierced his entire heart, as if she didn't notice the other party's cold expression, and she was not afraid of death and stretched out her hands to pinch his cheeks.
"What are you angry about, I'm just asking and playing, I don't know if a gentleman should keep smiling at a girl anytime and anywhere."
"Let go of me!" Sherlock couldn't help but raise his hand and slam her hand away, "You're not qualified to joke about other people's things, and you won't say that when you're going through the same thing as me." β
Heloise looked at Sherlock, her eyes flashed with tears, she grew up being held since she was a child, because of her background and appearance, she didn't even bear a word of scolding from others, but today she didn't expect to be scolded by Sherlock like this because of a problem, she only felt extremely aggrieved.
Sherlock resented the people who planned a series of things behind him, but he had nothing to do with Heloise, he really shouldn't have been angry with an inconsequential person, and was just about to apologize, but Edvina walked in at this time and reminded coldly: "Heloise, are you going to live here forever, your family will probably be worried, right?" β
She really didn't want to serve the princess's seriously ill daughter anymore, so she couldn't wait to kick people out, but Sherlock didn't drink to herself like this person.
Heloise was pretending to be aggrieved, but now she is really aggrieved: "I've been kicked out of the house." β
Hearing this, Edwina thought in her heart: Your family estimates that I can't stand your princess illness. She had no sympathy for what the other party was going through.
The winter with the north wind is bitter -
On the side of the commercial street of Bello, a little girl who was unkempt and unkempt, no more than 10 years old, was dressed in tattered clothes, and there was a straw in her unkempt hair like a chicken coop, and she was begging from the people on the road, her hands and feet were purple from the cold.
At this moment, a pink and white carriage slowly stopped in front of her, the girl was stunned for a moment, then raised her head, the door opened, and three people in strange clothes walked out of it.
The girl looked at the three strangely dressed people in front of her and couldn't help but be a little curious, she had never seen anyone in this kind of costume, girls like cute and beautiful things, she was no exception, a person in a purple bear suit, with a dark purple bow tied around his neck, holding a puppet in a pink and white lantern skirt with his limbs wrapped around the control line, he controlled the puppet with ten fingers, and performed a puppet dance in front of the girl.
The girl's interest was completely aroused, but she didn't know that what was in front of her was not a cute puppet at all, but a little girl covered in blood and delicate in appearance that had turned into a cold corpse, but the girl's eyes were confused by the illusion of the three people in front of her, and she didn't realize that she would be killed in the next moment.
"Do you like it?" A voice came from inside the bear suit.
"I like it!" The girl nodded vigorously
"Would you like to join us?"
"Yes."
Then the girl got into the carriage with the three of them, and no one saw the girl again after three days, and the British detective Arthur Randall led the police to search all over the United Kingdom and did not find it, it was as if the world had evaporated, and in just a few days, countless little girls had disappeared inexplicably, and the only clue to get was that the girl and three people in animal suits got into a pink and white carriage.
Two days later, there was an extra puppet in the puppet opera house with an unkempt hair with a straw in it, and it was dressed in tattered clothes, which was obviously the girl who got into the carriage five days ago, and there were hundreds of puppets in the puppet production room, and there were hundreds of puppets in the puppet production room.
Before the puppet show started, the audience was already full of people, and Sherlock and the others were sitting in the second row of the audience, he didn't expect that even Heloise would have to come with him, because the other party had nowhere to go, and Sherlock was not obliged to take her in, but the other party said that she would also make desserts, so she was left behind, but she didn't expect that when she heard that there was a puppet show here, she had to come along, but she didn't want Sherlock and the three of them to come here to watch any puppet show.
But after one scene, Heloise's mouth never stopped, and the desserts were one after another, and Sherlock was basically speechless, with three black lines on his face, which would make him think that he was raising pigs.
Heloise was so satisfied that she burped a lot, and Edvina asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Sherlock, why did you bring her with you?" β
My heart has already gone berserk: it's a shame!! I don't know her!!
"Less nonsense." Sherlock said these three words coldly.
After a wonderful performance, all but the four Sherlock people walked out of the opera house one after another.
Sherlock had already investigated the six people who had committed the crime in the puppet opera house before he arrived.
At this time, a person wearing a bear suit walked towards here, and when he walked to the four of them, he took off his hood, but it was a young and handsome man with puppet makeup on his face, his black hair was tied back into a ponytail, he seemed to have a smile on his face all the time, leaned down and looked at Sherlock and smiled: "I am the founder of the Cullock Puppet Opera, Field Cullock, and I am the one who invited you, so Count Sherlock Ford Heslett, are you interested in joining us?" β
There was a hint of a smile on Sherlock's cold and handsome face, but there was a little less sincerity in this smile, and there was a terrible indifference in his eyes, and he stroked the ring of the family emblem with the sun logo on the thumb of his right hand: "This is also a good idea. β
It is just right to further confirm whether these people are the real murderers of those girls' disappearance, if so, then he can only clean up these rats, as long as it pollutes Her Majesty's situation, he will not hesitate to eradicate them together.
Heloise's eyes were attracted to a gray shorthair cat, and despite Sherlock's resistance, one person chased after the cat.
"This girl."
Sherlock was speechless to the extreme, and let Edvina and the Black Gentleman follow Field first, then turned and chased after Heloise.
Heloise looked at the cat that had disappeared without a trace, and suddenly remembered that she ran away without Sherlock's consent, which was really a bit excessive, and was just about to turn back, she just turned around and saw two tigers with their bloody mouths open, and was immediately stunned, and the two tigers roared at her, and pounced on her, Heloise sat down on the ground in fright, and subconsciously closed her eyes, just when she thought she was going to die here.
She was suddenly accepted into a warm embrace, and Heloise opened her eyes only to find that she had been picked up by Sherlock in its entirety, with three scratches on his right arm and bits of blood pouring from the wound.
After throwing off the two tigers, Sherlock put her down, and there was a hint of anger in his tone: "If you run around like you do today, I won't take you out!" β
Heloise has nothing to say, she is just curious today, after all, it is the first time to come to this kind of place when she is so big, although she secretly scolds the other party in her heart for not being gentle with girls at all, but today it is indeed her fault first.
Seeing her like this, Sherlock suddenly couldn't bear to say anything more about her, and stretched out his right hand to her: "Let's go, Edvina and the black gentleman are still waiting for us." β
Heloise took his hand and stood up from the ground, turned and disappeared into the dark hallway, when suddenly, a pair of red eyes flashed through the darkness and disappeared in an instant.
In the rehearsal room, Edvina looked at these lifelike puppets, but she felt that something was wrong, coupled with a faint smell of blood in the air, the whole thing revealed a strange feeling more and more, subconsciously took a step back, but accidentally bumped into the person walking behind her, and she stepped on the other party's foot mercilessly.
Suddenly, the man let out a miserable scream: "It hurts to death!" β
βI'm very sorryοΌ Field. β
Edvina was so shocked by the other party's scream that her scalp was numb, her eardrums were almost buzzing, and she quickly apologized, but stepped on the other party's left foot again.
"This young lady, I know you didn't mean to, but please hold your feet high."
Edvina hurriedly removed her feet, her face was very embarrassed, the other five people had already changed into puppet costumes, one of them was wearing a blue and white bubble skirt, long golden wavy hair, a beautiful and mature woman, and said: "My name is Renata Fergil, and I am a staff member of the puppet opera house. β
Another young girl with short purple hair, green eyes like a clear spring, and a beautiful appearance, said with a smile: "I'm Maggie Meek. β
Edvina was a little uncomfortable with the sudden enthusiasm of others, she was used to Sherlock's indifferent look, and now she felt a little strange to see the other party's smile that disregarded her image.
The other party's appearance does not belong to the type of country and city, but it makes people feel very comfortable at first glance.
A handsome young man stepped forward with a polite smile on his face, "I'm Hank Pegg." β
Although the other party is handsome, he still looks mediocre compared to Sherlock.
"I'm Sarina Sharon." A girl with puppet makeup on her face and a double ponytail was then introduced to another girl who also wore puppet makeup, "She is Aina Sharon is my sister, and all five of us are staff members of this puppet opera house." β
"Edvina Sherman."
Edwina had a smile on her face, but in her head she remembered Sherlock saying that the disappearance of those girls was probably related to the Coollock Opera House, could it beβshe suddenly remembered the smell of blood.
"He's a black gentleman, Sherlock's deacon."
The black gentleman leaned over slightly, a smile on his face.
"I am the head of the Ford Heslett family, and the Devil Contractor in England." Sherlock looked at the hundreds of puppets, and seemed to have a vague guess in his heart, which seemed to be the same as his guess, but there was a slight smile on his face, but it was so faint that people couldn't see it, "She's Heloise Alex." β
In fact, Sherlock has long been famous in the UK, even if he doesn't introduce himself, the six Fields know him, the owner of a "Heslett Toy and Dessert Company", and a British earl, a demon contractor, who has pushed the Ford Heslett family, which was originally on the verge of collapse, to the top of the top ten famous families in the United Kingdom, and now has the ability to reach the sky with one hand.
Field will only use a little trick to confuse the eyes of those little girls, and he has no ability to see the sky with his hands and eyes, but at least he can deceive those criminal police, not to mention, Edwina, the Black Gentleman and Heloise should all be very important people to him, as long as he takes these three people as hostages when the time comes, he wants to see what else can happen to Sherlock, and if he is to blame, he will be blamed for bringing three oil bottles.
Except for Sherlock and Edwina, the dark gentleman, Heloise was unaware of the danger approaching them, and the moonlight shone through the diamond-shaped dark red window in the middle of the night, and the blood-red light shone through the rehearsal room, and hundreds of puppets fell from the ceiling at once, and then climbed up from the ground in a very strange position without any control, as if they were all resurrected.
At this time, everyone was already asleep, but Sherlock couldn't sleep anyway, so he simply didn't sleep, and at this moment, he only felt a strong sense of danger approaching, he was a suspicious person by nature, which made him even more vigilant, and clenched the pistol in his hand: It's finally here.
A vague smell of blood came from the dark and empty corridor, there was a rumbling sound in the darkness, a large amount of blood rivers gushed in, and the smell of blood instantly spread all over the world, and the girls who had been made into puppets inexplicably disappeared at this time, at this time, slowly walked out of the production room and rehearsal room in an extremely strange posture.
There were more than a thousand puppets, heading towards Edvenna, the Black Gentleman, and Heloise's room, Edvina was the first to wake up, no, to be precise, she hadn't fallen asleep at all, to be precise, she had always maintained a state of vigilance, both of them had an innate sense of impending danger, they weren't here to play.
The black gentleman felt that the dark red light in the room looked extremely weird and shocking at this time, except for the three of them, Heloise had been pampered since she was a child, and she had not gone through anything, so naturally she would not have any defense, and she was also the one who slept the most soundly.
The puppets had already arrived outside the door of the three's room, and Field, Maggie, and Hank were already on top of the performance hall, waiting for the puppets to bring the three of them here, as long as the three of them were made into puppets, everything would be fine.
At this moment, those puppets were suddenly burned into ashes by the fire one after another, and the number kept decreasing, and suddenly there were only more than three hundred left from more than a thousand, and the strange fire touched the surging river of blood not only did not extinguish but burned faster and faster, and in an instant there were only three puppets left, and finally these three were also burned by the flames, leaving only the smell of blood and burning in the air.
Field frowned, feeling more and more that something was wrong, it would not be so slow, those hostages had already become puppets at this time, what was going on today.
"This sweet dream, you have time to go to hell and do it slowly." Sherlock placed Heloise, who was still unconscious, in a safe area, holding a black pistol in his right hand, "From the day you stepped into London, England, the first woman disappeared inexplicably, and more coincidentally, at the door of the Emily flower shop where the woman disappeared, witnesses found that the woman disappeared after getting into your carriage, and what is even more ridiculous is that you abducted two women in this way, and then I felt that there was such a coincidence in the world, why, As soon as your carriage appears, there will be a girl who will disappear inexplicably, and it just so happens that Her Majesty asked me to investigate, and I happened to receive an invitation letter from you, Field Cullock, and I felt more and more that this disappearance case was related to you, until yesterday I saw those dolls, two of them were from the magic city of Atlante, England, and I was completely sure that it was you. β
Field only felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet, but he didn't expect that instead of successfully catching Edwina, the Black Gentleman and Heloise today, Sherlock found out the truth: "What can you mean by just reasoning, unless you have evidence." β
"Evidence?" Sherlock sneered and raised his pistol, "Aren't the six of you living evidence?" β
"What do you mean?"
Field didn't understand the meaning of the other party's words for a while, and what was called the six of them was evidence. But before he could think about it, he heard a gunshot rang out, and a cloud of blood splattered out, and the bullet pierced his skull entirely, and Field fell backwards under the stage, blood dissolving from the back of his head.
The other five had no way to react, they obviously didn't expect the other party to really shoot, and they didn't even recover from this sudden turn of events, but Sherlock wouldn't give them the slightest time to react, Maggie was shot through the heart and fell straight to the ground, killing him instantly.
Renata didn't understand why the five of them were just staff members here, and she didn't know that anyone who had anything to do with the puppet opera house and Field Cullock would be slaughtered.